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Category Archives: Cover Art
The Elusive Ellescas Who Illustrates LP’s
Sometimes it is difficult to find information about artists and illustrators, and the seemingly “elusive” Richard “Dick” Ellescas is one. Ellescas is a 20th Century American artist and illustrator and member of the California Art Club, which was established in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cover Art, Illustrations, Paintings
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In Air, Fire, Earth and Water | World on the Scales
The Artwork: Album cover for King Crimson’s 1970 vinyl LP In the Wake of Poseidon features the artwork The 12 Archetypes or The 12 Faces of Humankind by Tammo de Jongh (1967). A description of the twelve faces for this … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cover Art
Tagged In the Wake of Poseidon, King Crimson, Richard Gardner, Tammo De Jongh, The Purpose of Love
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They Are Redheads | Not Deadheads!
Redheads is an iconic Australian top-selling brand of matches originally manufactured in Victoria by Bryant & May match factory at Church Street, Richmond. The factory was opened in 1909 by The Honourable Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia. The Redhead … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cover Art, nostalgia, Urban Art
Tagged Bryant & May, match box covers, Pop Art, Redheads matches
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Walk Softly Witch! You Are Wanted by Carter Brown
The 1950s were a golden era for Australian pulp fiction and one of the main attractions was its striking cover art. With import restrictions on books and magazines from the United States (US) in the 1940s and 1950s; opportunities arose … Continue reading
Take Potluck or be Thunderstruck
[Above: Two issues of Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure] Left: Issue No. 76 November 15, 1899. “The Rocket or Adventures in the Air” by Allyn Draper. Frustrated pursuers stand agape as their quarry lifts off for a trip … Continue reading
Posted in Collectibles, Cover Art
Tagged children's magazines, dime magazines, dime novels, Frank Tousey, Harry WQolff, Pluck and Luck, Westbury
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With a Huffin’ and a Puffin’ These Covers Will Blow You Away
[Above: Book covers for Puffin Story Books published in 1951. Gloria Freedman’s front and back cover (The Secret Garden) and John Harwood’s covers for Fairy Tales From the Isle of Man.] Four years after Australian paperback publisher Penguin Books had been … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cover Art, Illustrations
Tagged Book illustrators, Gloria Freedman, John Harwood, paperback books, Penguin books, Puffin books
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From Backstage Girl To Lucky In Love
Pulp Fiction paperback publishing did not only happen in America. In the second half of the 20th Century an Australian pulp scene burned brightly with tales of jaded gunshoes, valiant servicemen and women, daring spies, violent youth gangs and bikies. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cover Art, Erotic Art, Illustrations, nostalgia
Tagged Cover Art, pulp fiction
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Agnes Toth: From ‘Man in Cloth’ to Darkest Goth
Above: “The Magician” by Agnes Toth Contemporary artist Agnes Toth (born, 1981 in Gyor, Hungary) displays an inimitable style and with great story-telling ability. Toth graduated from University College, Falmouth (U.K.) with an M.A. in Fine Art Contemporary Practice and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cover Art, DarkArt, Gallery Art, Illustrations, Paintings, Rogue's gallery
Tagged Agnes Toth, BP Portrait Award, Drummond Money-Coutts, Hungarnian artists, magicians, National Portrait Gallery - London, neo-classical darkwave, The Moon and the Night Spirit
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Sometimes – Time and Tide Wait For No Man
Above: Patrick Woodroffe’s LP cover design for Greenslade’s “Time & Tide for No Man”. Patrick James Woodroffe was born on 27 October 1940, in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He became a full-time artist in 1972; the year in which he gave … Continue reading
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Tagged Dave Greenslade, Greenslade, Patick Woodroffe, prog rock, Prog Rock bands
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Lotte Lenya and the Ballad of Mack the Knife
Portrait of Lotte Lenya by Saul Bolasni. The famous Austrian-born singer and actress, Lotte Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer on 18 October 1898, to Catholic working class parents in Vienna. In 1914, she studied in Zürich, taking her … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cover Art, Rogue's gallery
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Die Dreigroschenoper, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Saul Bolasni, Threepenny Opera
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Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair
Above is the cover design for Japanese ‘Rainbow’ Ne-Ne stationery note-paper designed ca. 1969. Japan has a plethora of smart pieces of stationery with both practical and sophisticated design elements. Japan is the design stationery capital of the world. Stationery … Continue reading
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Tagged Japanese Stationery, Notepaper, Rainbow, Vintage Writing Paper
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The Story of Angélique and the Illustrator
[Above: Book cover for Angélique] These illustrations are from various dust jackets from the “Angélique” series of 13 French historical adventure books, written by the novelist duo Anne and Serge Golon known collectively as ‘Sergeanne Golan’. Some of the titles in this series … Continue reading
How To Create Some Very Angry Penguins
Editors of an Australian mid-century literary and artistic avant-garde magazine ‘Angry Penguins’ were devoted to the cause of Modernism which was based on the movements of Surrealism and Expressionism. From its humble beginnings in Adelaide, South Australia, through to its … Continue reading
The Foreman of British Illustration
British author and illustrator Michael Foreman was born a month before his father died, on 21 March 1938. He grew up in Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, where his mother kept the village shop. He studied at Lowestoft School of Art, … Continue reading